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Omuha Barkalow Bros... 1612 Faraam: .Mageath Stationary Co, 1308 Farnam; 240 "South 14 th. . Sacramento. Cal. Sacramento News Co.. 29 K. street. Salt Lake Salt Lake News Co.. 77 West Second street South; National News Agency. Yellowstone rark, Wyo. Canyon Hotel. Lake Hotel, Yellowstone Park Assn. -Lone Beach B. E. Amos. San Iranclsco J. K. Cooper & Co, 746 Market street; Goldsmith Bros., 236 Sutter end Hotel St. Francis News Stand: 1. 2. Lee. Palace Hotel News Stand: F. W. Pitts, 1003 Market; Frank Scott. 80 Ellis; N. Wheatley MoVable News Stand, corner Mar ket and Kearney streets; Foster & Orear. Ferry News Stand. St. Louis. Mo. E. T. Jett Book News Company, 806 Ollvo street. Washington, D. C Ebbltt House. Pennsyl vania avenue. PORTLAND. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 5. JEROME AND THE MAYORALTY. Mr. William Travers Jerome. Dis trict Attorney of New York, belongs to that rare species of men who know their own minds. He thinks he has made a good District Attorney, there lore he asks for a re-election. He wants the office because he knows he is lit for it; because he has made a record to stand on; and because that record has a character of Its own, clear, definite and uncompromising-, for the people to approve or condemn. Like -all his compeers in the new school of politicians, whether' Republicans or Democrats, and like the great and strenuous founder of that school. Mr. Jerome loves a clear issue; and above all he is gratified when the issue Is a square one between right and wrong. New York City is therefore an Ideal arena for him to fight upon, since In that valley of Armageddon Gog and Magog are forever at war. "With vary ing and uncertain fortunes the contest between the hosts of Ormlged and Ahrl man is perpetually waged' there, and Jerome is gradually emerging as the protagonist of light. t It is useless to deny that American political issues are everywhere becom ing profoundly ethical. Trimmers and time-servers are steadily losing ground "before the men -who stand for definite moral principles In both pa-ties. La Follette, Deneen, Folk, are rising men because they are uncompromisingly honest and plalnspoken. Secretary Taft gains ground with the people every speech he makes because he Is always, without reservation, squarely on the side of simple, old-fashioned righteousness. It is too much to say that we owe this tendency wholly to New York City; but certainly the en thusiastic reading of the accounts of the perennial fight against Tammany Hall has done more than any other cause to imspire young men all over the country to take up the struggle against graft and corruption in their own cities' and states. Like the trusts, the street railway monopolies and all the great organi zations for graft and plunder, Tam pany belongs to no political party. It pretends to be Democratic, but the name Is a mere convenience. It has no principles and no loyalty. It exists solely to plunder the public and its power rests upon a consistent appeal to the primitive instinct of thievery. Tammany Hall would join the Repub lican party tomorrow if its leaders were convinced that the Republicans had a majority In New York City. The city machine always goes by the name of the dominant party. In Philadelphia it is Republican, but its objects are fraud and theft. Just as Tammany's are in New York. In Cincinnati the two so called parties have the same boss. When Rqme was decadent, the priests, or augurs, used to grin at each other as they -went through the motions of sacrificing. The mummeries were all very well to fool the people but the priests saw through them. Just so our political priests in the corrupt Amer ican cities see though the mummeries of party riames and pretended princi ples -whose only use is to befool silly and indolent voters. Party loyalty in a New York city election Is besotted superstition. None knows this better than Mr Jerome, and being the Inveterate foe to shams, superstitions and frauds, he has declared his independence of all the bosses and stands for re-election as an independent candidate; and if he -holds steadfastly to his purpose, his success Is certain. His career Is stainless, his ability enormous, and his popularity is great and increasing. He is another of those personalities, continually appear ing In New York, like Tllden, Cleve land and Roosevelt, who combine po litical shrewdness with unbending In tegrity, and the bosses fear him, as "well they may. Should he be re-elected Dis trict Attorney this year, he is likely to 'become Governor of New York, next year, And then the Presidency Is not far oft. Their scheme for getting rid of Jerome resembles the game" of the bosses against Roowvelt when, tkey nominated him for Vice-President, but It would probably work a good deal better- Th.e plot is to nominate Jerome for Mayor of New York, to run. against McClellan, and then defeat him. Of course this would ruin him politically. McClellan, though a creature of Tam many Hall, Is not entirely subservient, and has made a very decent Mayor. He has never had the courage to revolt from his masters, like Weaver of Phil adelphia, but he has withstood them now and then. In running for re-election he would have all his previous strength and a good deal more, for the feeling In New York, even among Inde pendents like Jacob Riis, is that he has done pretty well and deserves another term. Some of the Independent papers which opposed him before are now sup porting him, and the same is true of one faction of the Citizens' Union. The independent voters of New York are badly at odds, in fact, and Jerome could not look for anything like their unanimous support if he ran for Mayor, while on the other hand, running- for District Attorney he Is sure of re-election. There Is little danger that Jerome will misunderstand the situation. The path to high political honor lies by way of the Governor's chair, as he well knows. The Mayors of New York have, as a rule, gone no farther. If he were sure of the office he would not accept It- Under the present conditions of doubt and premeditated treachery he will resolutely decline the nomination. THE SUSrXERS. FATHER AND BON. Major-General Samuel S. Sumner, U. S. A., commanding the Southwestern Division, embracing the Department of Texas and the Department of Colorado, who came last week to see the Lewis and Clark Fair, is a son of General Edwin V. Sumner, who commanded corps d'armee in the Army of the Po tomacthe First orps at Antletam and the right grand division at Fred ericksburg. In the Spring of 1S61 he superseded General Albert Sidney John ston In command of the Department of the Pacific. Johnston was arrang ing a movement on this coast in sup port of the Confederacy, when Sumner appeared, suddenly, and relieved him of the command. It was due to the vigi lance of Senator Nesmlth, of Oregon, that this change was effected. On his way to Washington In the Fall of 1860 Nesmlth took note of Johnston's move ments, and Immediately after Lincoln became President, urged the removal of Johnston. Sumner was instructed to relieve Johnston, but to give no notice whatever, in advance. It Is probable this averted serious trouble In our Pa cific States and territories. Johnston at once started overland for the South, received high command in the Confed erate armv, commanded at the battle of Shlloh, In April, 1862, and was killed there. General Edwin V. Sumner died in 1863, at Syracuse, N. Y., en route for the West He was to command the Federal armies west of the Mississippi. His son, the present General, Samuel S. Sumner, entered the Army as a vol unteer at the beginning of the Civil War. He Is now a Major-General. and will be retired next year. From Frank Moore's "Anecdotes and Remi niscences of the War," published in 1866, the following incident is recovered, viz: A story is told of the veteran Sumner at the battle of Antletam. His on. Captain Sumner, a youth of twenty, was on his staff. The old man calmly stood amid a term of phot and JhfH. and turned to en him through a doubly ragln? fire, on a mission of doty. He might never see hi boy again, but hi country claimed his life and, as he looked upon his younjr brow, he grasped his hand, onclrcled him with hl arms, and fondly kissed him. "Good-by. Sammy;" "Good-by. father:" and the youth, mounting his horse, rode gay li on with the message. He returned unharmed, and again hla nana was grasped and a cor dial "How d'ye do, Sammy?" answered by a grasp of equal affection and "Glad to see you, father." The scene was touching t those who witnessed It. In this battle the old General was wounded. "Sammy" waa General Sumner's constant companion. The father depended much en hla judgment and consulted him upon many of the most Important matters. "It wan a touch lng bond." says the chronicler, "whleh united the gray, war-worn veteran to the sen of his old age." THE DELAY AT PAN ASIA. It is now announced that all other branches of .work on the Panama Ca nal will be. temporarily suspended until the sanitary conditions at the Isthmus have been sufficiently Improved to ad mit of a laborer performing a day's work without placing his life in Jeop ardy. Unquestionably this is a feature of the work thatTshould have been at tended to eighteen months ago, and, had it been taken up at that time, vast sums of money and much time would have been 6aved. There has been some thing which, tor want of a better defi nition, we might .term "un-American" ab6ut the conduct of the Panama Canal work throughout the entire eighteen months that the old commission was in charge. The large delegations of office-seekers In search of a nice, easy Govern ment position where the work would be light and pay liberal were In most cases disappointed with the conditions which prevailed at Panama, and nearly all drifted back to this country "knock ing" Panama to the extent of their ability, and thereby frightening out many better men who might have been induced to go to - the Isthmus with a view to giving up a day's work for a day's pay. With the experience of the French In their efforts to put the canal through, It is difficult to understand how any Intelligent man could view a sojourn at Panama In the light of a pleasure trip, and yet It Is quite appar ent that such was the view taken by many of the men who went down there. This was one of the causes which has Interfered with progress on the work, but beneath the surface, and re flected from- time to time in newspaper .articles and Interviews with public man, was a sentiment of Indifference or distrust of the ultimate success of the scheme. Whether It was the rail roads that have steadily fought canal legislation tor years, or whether It was timidity cauaod Ty the failure of the French plans 3ears before, certain it Is this prevailing sentiment was highly detrimental to progress on canal work. The new management of the canal seems determined to bring about r change. It has cut out much of the red tape which prevented bUslness-llke ac tion, and has formulated plans for carrying the work ahead as expedi tiously and economically as though It was a private undertaking. With the experience of the old com mission as a record, there will be no disposition to underestimate the diffi culties confronted by the French. But there is nothing In the record of ac complishments, or rather lack of ac complishments, to date, that warrants the belief that the task Is unsurmount able. It doe not require a high degree of Utelllffence to unaerstmjad that slow progress will be made while men are dying by scores and those who escape are 111 fed and sickly. Chairman Shonts and his associates seem to ap preciate fully this fact, and they will make no attempt to do any active "dig ging" until they have Improved sani tary conditions so that the health of the men will not be Impaired. There nre certain Influences which are detrimental to the canal now at work, as they have been for years, but the American people have determined on the construction of the- ditch, and In obedience to this determination all obstacles will be overcome and the waters of the two oceans joined. This preliminary delay is exasperating, but it is by no means fatal to the project. STAYING BY THE SOIL. Much has been said and written of an alarming movement off the farm to the city, and of the consequent over crowding of already dense populations. For this -depopulation of the country many reasons are given. But they simmer down to the dullness and back wardness of life on the farm, and to the attractions of the city, in high wages. In movement and variety, and In more or less healthy amusements. Be it ever so desirable that the cur rent be reversed and run from city to country, the grade must be first changed, and a downhill channel opened from city to farm. The city's attractions will not grow less as time passes. There will be even more ball games, and rail and river excursions, theaters and vaudeville shows. Illumin ated streets and decorated- stores. Sa loon and danoehall doors will still be open to the young, but not very Inno cent, country boy. Work In the city, while times are good, must be better "paid than mere farm labor, and of va riety of occupation there Is no end. So the stream cannot be dammed and thrown back at the city end. We have dealt with the average farm b6y, it will be observed, not with the rarer specimen, who, besides work of better class In city, finds means to raise himself and grow in knowledge and book learning, in science and art. who frequents the Y. M. C. A. rooms, and adds to the growing number of readers in the public library- Ambition, the sense of capacity and of desire to rise, have taken possession of boys of this class. Such an one, probably, has cho sen wisely to make his way where men congregate and life throbs and flows fast But, to the average country man and country girl, who has heard the call to the town, but has not yet shaken country dust from the feet, what can be shown them by way of hope for such a leavening of farm life with city brightness and lightness as shall hold them where they belong? The first curse of farm life In the sparsely settled regions of the West is Its isolation. 1 it Inevitable that farm houses be set one-half a mile apart? Must movement and company on the farm be confined to horses and cows, hogs, dogs and chickens, and days pass without a soul In sight but the family in the lone house? Shall letters and newspapers lie in the distant postofflce until some member of the household musters up courage to "hitch up" and journey there to get them, or else till stores give out and the housewife In sists on a fresh supply? Oh, for the extension of this rural mall delivery until every farm Is within Its benefi cent circuit Let our rural friends never cease agitating until this great boon comes to them also. Away off In the wilds of Crook County the settlers have found how, by self-help, they may prepare the way for the rural mall. This Is how they do It In -the Bear Creek country, according to an Eastern Oregon paper: A novel new rural mall delivery has been established between Prlnevllle and the Bear Creek country- The route Is about 45 mile long and corves about 40 families. One de livery each week Is made and each pemra benefited must take his turn and make a trip. Thus each man on the route will have to make a trip about once In every nlae months. The first trip was made n the 21et of August. This new service la f groat benefit u thora served, giving every one their mall once each week, delivered at the door. The new service was agreed to by all those concerned, and each person will make hla regular trip as his name la reaohed on the list. Think of ll forty-five miles long and forty families to be served! Can noth ing more be done for them In their far apart homes? Two things would help them out, the rural telephone and the parcels post. The flrst of these folks can get for themselves, even In the Bear Creek country if they will learn by Willamette Valley experience and combine and organize. It costs but lit tle compared with the comfort gained. It is almost life, it may easily be health. Insurance. The lone woman in the house Is no longer lonely, and the doctor can be got at before the patient dies. As to the parcels post: The statesman who falls to Insist on, to fight for, this boon to country people everywhere hardly deserves the name. Who are express companies, that their objections should outweigh the univer sal demand of the people? But the last .remedy for the Isolation and dullness of farm life Is the most certain. Diminish the distances apart of the farms, and set the houses near enough to -be neighbors in reality, as well as in name. How is this to be brought about? First by following out on all these irrigated lands of Oregon the wise suggestion of Mr. Savage. Here It is: II. N. Savage, one of the supervising en gineers of the Government's Irrigation proj ects In Montana, as stated by the Helena Record, has determined upon a novel plan In conjunction with what Is known as the Huntly project that of establishing- town altca at Intervals of five miles on the lira of the main Irrigating ditch. The land served Is to be divided Into 40-acre tracts. In the center of the tract the Government will es tablish and conduct an experiment station for the benefit of settlers on the Irrigated lands and for the Information of the Agri cultural Department. If all plans shall work satisfactorily, the settlers upon the lands reclaimed by Government Irrigation works will have neighbors, companions, daily mall, soil ready for the plow, near markets for perishable products of their lands and transportation facilities for distribution of the staple products. Let not this"revival of village life be confined to Irrigated -lands. Wher ever intensive farming is possible, wherever rotation of crops and diver sity of products are Introduced, wher ever the small-tract orchard gives the livelihood for the family, there can neighborhood life flourish. One point more: What fanner who has children to bring up does not pray for the chance . of the long term and the graded school? The village, the concentration of life on the farm, shows the way out. In Grant County, In the heart of Eastern Oregon, they have found it, as this shows: The District Clerks school censua reports ahow a strongly pronounced movement of population away from the country and into the towns and villages. A fw districts have been compelled to discontinue their organizations from want of patrons, vil lage schools, show the greatest saint, more than offsetting tha losses in the country. What village life and village schools can do for the children, tying them to the farm for good and all, this, as Rudyard Kipling says, this Is another story. The steamer Jerome, plying on ihe Upper Columbia River, struck a rock and sank on her first .trip In the wheat trade above Celllo. A similar fate overtook the steamer Frederick m Bill ings on her maiden trip In connection with the Paul Mohr portage road a few years ago. These two accidents do not prove that the Upper Columbia Is un safe for navigation, for many a fine steamboat met her fate on the same route before the railroad came. What they do prove Is that In Its present con dition It Is a much more difficult piece of river to navigate than the unob structed reaches of the lower river and middle river. The disaster will be keenly regretted, for some difficulty has been experienced In securing boats for the route, and this may have a tendency still further to delay the establishment of steamboat communication with the upper country. The annual hop harvest Is on in the Willamette Valley, and thousands of pickers will be in the fields today. The amount of money distributed among the pickers Is In the aggregate very large. The crop this year Is smaller than that of last year, and the price Is materially lower. The size of the crop of course affects the gross earnings of the pickers, but the price of hops Is a matter of Indifference with them, for they receive as much for picking a pound of lS-cent hops this year as they were paid for picking 30-cent hops a year ago. Despite the low prices, the industry will place as much money In circulation as was distributed by the salmon Industry in a fairly successful season, like that just closed. The suggestion of Mr. Wanzer. ex Clty Engineer, that the disease-breeding sloughs on the East Side of the river be filled by material dredged out of the river is an excellent one. By this method the City of Tacoma con verted a large amount of worthless tldeland Into fine water-front property, and In the transformation practically all of the expense was borne by the Government- The harbor and adjacent flats are of as much Importance to Portland as those of Tacoma are to the City of Destiny, and It might be pos sible to persuade the Government to as sist the Port of Portland In scooping out some of the shoal places In the harbor and spreading the dirt where It would be useful. Possibly It is too much to expect of a man with a gun that he should forbear to kill a strange deer, which threw Itself on his mercy by running straight Into his camp. But a lone caribou met this fate last week in a sheepherder's camp In the Blue Mountains. It was the only one ever seen in Oregon, as far as Is reported, though a few are believed to survive In the southern mountains of Idaho. Caribou abound In Alaska, and share with moose the privilege of being hunted as the mainstay of the prospector's and fur hunter's life In Winter. But In Oregon they seem out of their latitude. That solitary deer weighed close to 300 pounds dressed. A London Inventor has designed a steamship which he confidently expects wll! cross the Atlantic In three days. There Is nothing particularly new In the speed limit which he announces, for the celebrated "roller boat," on which French capitalists spent several hun dred thousand dollars, was built to roll across the ocean In three days. It has been several years since her trial trip, but she has never made a satisfactory run and was broken up for Junk soon after she proved a failure. The latest Inventor with a "high-speed" Idea for ocean steamships will build his boats with sixteen propellors Instead of two, which Is the maximum number now In use. Machinery has threatened the noble hand trade of the sculptor. A Neapol itan has Invented a sculpturing device whose motive power Is steam or elec tricity, which they say can do the work of twenty first-class sculntor. On nt the machines has reached New York, but Is the subject of a lawsuit against the purchaser of the American rights from a "sculpture syndicate." When this Is settled and the machines get to work, every town In the country can become an art center. Science has done something In the past twenty years to check the rav ages of consumption. A remarkable decrease In the number of deaths from this disease In the larger cities of Prussia has been recorded. In 1SS6 the death rate in the cities of over 100,000 inhabitants was 37.35 per 10,000; In 1902 it was only 22 per 10,000. And it should be remembered that health statistics in Germany are correctly made up. Now that the Emperor of Japan has somewhat tardily made full acknowl edgment of the President's service In behalf of peace, let us dismiss the sub ject and order our kitchen wood be fore the Fall rains set in. Though we are on the fifth day of the flrst permissible oyster month, Port land visitors have relished the bivalve for the last four weeks. Another ad vertisement for our perfect Summer climate." Thomas W. Lawson was down 'on the programme for a Labor day speech at Kansas City, but he "failed to arrive." We reckon that's what's usually the matter with Thomas. With the prestige of success at Ports mouth, President Roosevelt will be In good position fo serve as referee be tween Taft and Root three years from now. Labor day being over, everybody will again go to work. Credit to Portland. ' Athena (Umatilla) Press. It Is most gratifying to say that the good people of Portland are not taking advantage of the opportunity to "graft" and "hold up" everybody, as has been too often the case at great expositions. Hotel rates, private rooms, meals at restaurants or with private families are as reasonable as before the Exposition opened Its doors. In fact, so far as the cost of necessities is concerned, one could hardly realise a great Exposition & in full blast and thousands of strangers are within the gates and the guests of Port land. And Portland people can well be proud of this condition of affairs. The future will ahow their wisdom and bring a reward far in excess of -what would follow bad a policy of "get rich quick" been adopted by them. V . OREGON OZONE Where That BUI Went. William Dollar returned Monday fron his visit to the Portland " Fair. Cocur d'Alene (Idaho) Journal. Still Meaner. A gentle reader from Hood River de clares that there Is a man in his town even meaner than the one who runs an apiary and crosses his bees with light ning bugs fo make them work all night, as noted in this column a few days ago. The Hood River man, according to our reader, hangs around a maple sugar making plant in .fly time and .catches files to get the sugar off their legs. The King's Economy. Joseph Blethcn. associate editor of the Seattle Times, has discovered that in order to see the King of England It Is not necessary for a man to put on un couth knee-breeches and un-American hu mility, nor to fail over a chair walking backward out of the royal presence. Mr. Blethen writes from London that he saw King Edward and his whole royal outfit without changing his clothes or hl3 method of locomotion. The King and his suite arrived at a railway station and entered carriages for tho royal palace, and tho Seattle journalist wa3 in the benevolent mob outside the ropes. Before the arrival of the royal locomotive, pull ing the royal tender and the royal railway carriages, a set of tackers tacked down a red carpet on the platform and a sot of sweepers swept the imaginary dust from It- The King stepped on this carpet to save the price of a shoe-shine. Such economy is touching, j That Inevitable If. "My new airship," said the-Columbus of the upper strata, "Is sure to be a suc cess. I know it will tack beautifully Just like a prize yacht- The rudder is made on scientific principles, and the pro pellers can't be Improved upon. It is sure to make a successful flight, if" "When are you going up In it?" in quired the enthusiastic friend. "Just as soon as the weather conditions are favorable. As I say, the machine la a winner. The whole ship Is built on tho most approved lines. Every contlhgency has been looked after, and It is going to be a world-boater, if" "I'm eager to see you try It.' "If the machinery doesn't get -out of order," concluded the confident aeronaut. Thrills. Page 45, of the August issue of The Auto Advocate, tells of the races at Cleveland, where that veteran racing man.Earl Klser. lost control of his ma chine and ran into the fence. "Hla left leg was reduced to a pulp and his racer totally destroyed. He was romoved to tho Glenville Hospital, where the leg was amputated. With Klser out of the game, Webb Jay was an easy winner." etc Page IS the other side of the same sheet tells of the races at Buffalo, where Webb Jay "was the central figure In a tragic event." Jay's machine (crashed through the fence, and "Mr. Jay had nine ribs brokon and one lung punctured, and his right arm and right leg were broken." The next page contains an interview with Barney OldflekJ. the remaining one of the famous auto-racing trio. In which Mr. Oldfield sets forth that unless there is a great Improvement in tracks. It Is a ques tion of only a short time when auto-rac-Ing will be a thing of the past, as it will be prohibited by law. The Auto Advocate might have supplemented this remarkable though unintentional juxtaposition of items by recalling the fact that a year ago, at St- Louis, Mr. Oldfield "lost con trol of his machine" at a race, ran Into a fence and killed one man, Nbelng himself severely Injured. Our excitement comes high, but we must have It; and the more horribly dan gerous it is. the better we like It Don't we? Look at the loop-the-roop, the gan-the-gap. the high dive Into the shallow tank, and that sort of thine "Is civilization a failure?" asked tho late Brot Harto, "or has the Caucasian played out?" One Gomez not the one who fought Spain for 30 years, that grand old Gomez being dead Is a candidate for the presi dency of Cuba, and he Is said to bo threatening a revolution In the event of his defeat. That Is the Latin-American idea. Let us suppose that It prevailed also In the United States. The original American Revolution would take a back seat and watch the newer revolutions perform their stunts on the'stage. There would be, of course, the Nebraska revolu tion, led by Colonel Bryan, and the Tom Watson revolution, and the E. "V. Debs revolt- The Belva A. Lockwood revolu tion, back in the 'Sta, would have been a terrible thing, and some of us would not' yet be restored to speaking terms with our wives. The Parker uprising well, that wouldn't have reached beyond the boat-landing at Esopus. "I have written without mitts," says F. Hopkinson Smith, In reference to some recent stories of a sociological trend. It Is always well to handle some questions without gloves. Many persons who saw a peculiar-looking streak In the sky above Spokane the night before last Imagined tha"t It was caused by the groat searchlight on the top of Pike's Peak. SCO miles away, which was turned on that night for the flrst time. Later developments, however, proved that the streak was merely a fore runnor of the yellow newspaper which, according to report. Is to be started In Spokane. "The use of goat meat has not become general and will not for several years." says Rural Spirit This is cheering news; we still have several years before we are compelled to choose between undoubted goat and a mere suspicion of goat ROBERTUS LOVE. The Normal Schools. Myrtle Point (Coos County) Enterprise. The Normal School at Weston is starved out from want-of support from the state. The schools at Monmouth, Drain and Ashland are still hanging on with the expectations that the state will yet come to the rescue. There is no bigger graft in the state than tho normal schools, and It is not likely that they will ever get relief from the state. While the schools have received large amounts from the state they ran along with small at tendance, and rushed out graduates, a majority of them no better educated than common school pupils graduated from the eighth grade. There is need of only one normal in the state -and that should be made a school worthy of support by tha state. Art Shaves, for Art's Sake. Forest Grove Times. Art Caples. who had laid the foun dation for a full beard, didn't like the looks of the thing as It grw and xrubbed it ifil out the other day. , WORKED EOR THEWORLD'S PEACE Irrespective of party or section, East ern newspapers enthusiastically praise Theodore Roosevelt for the great serv ice he has rendered to tlrtS cause of hu manity In bringing honorable peace to the warring nations, Russia and Japan: Chews What He Bites. St "Louis Globe-Democrat A man who can bito off and chew as much as Mr. Roosevelt can show his teeth whenever he feels like It. . . . WItte vanquished Oyama and Togo. He did more than that. He stole the popu lace of America arid England away from Japan, and organized victory for his side before he and his fellow-negotiators of both countries sat down at President Roosevelt's round table. Roosevelt Brought Wise Peace. Chicago Chronicle. For Japan the peace is eminently wise as well as honorable. Every mile she pushed away from home made the war more costly and more difficult for her. It was impossible to foresee the result of an other campaign and she has no huge re serve whereon to take the shock of a re verse. Because the peace is wise and hon orable Mr. Roosevelt Is to be accorded high praise for whatsoever agency he had In bringing it about Wlttc the Historical Figure. Chicago Inter-Ocean. President Roosevelt deserves great credit for his part in achieving results of the gravest Importance to the civilized world. But the historical figure of the peace conference is Sergius WItte, who secured for his country, worsted In war, a peace without humiliation and a settlement con sonant with the dignity of a great na tion. WItte's triumph shows that how ever much Russia's military prestige has suffered In the last IS months she stands in diplomacy where she has stood since the time of Gortchakoff. foremost among the- European and Asiatic powers. Irony or Fate? No. New York Sun. Is It the irony of fate that Theodore Roosevelt has come to be known as the Peacemaker? We venture to say It Is not. Those who know Theodore Roose velt, the man. know that there Is no braggadocio In his composition, nothing of the bully. As a citizen he was robust assertive and public spirited, never satis fied to play the silent and passive part, yet not contentious nor overbearing al ways a friend of order, decency and mor ality. Road in the light of his real char acter, his public utterance about the Big Stick and the creation of a large naw are not sinister. Theodore Roosevelt can be hailed a3 the pacificator without any mental reservations. "World Peacemaker." Philadelphia Press. Great as was Bismarck's work in se curing peace at the Berlin Congress, President Roosevelt's work on thio oc casion is greater still. He called the conference. Again and again he has saved it from disaster. At the end he secured the concessions, flrst from the Czar and next from the Mikado, which made peace possible. Without President Roosevelt war would have been resumed- amgie handed and alone he has changed the history of the world when neither na tion at war asked for his good offices nor desired them. At home and abroad. In International affairs and In domestic pol itics, the "World Peacemaker" holds a new place and speaks with new power In all he says and does. Triumph for Reason and Humanity. New York Tribune. When the negotiations seemed to nam reached a deadlock and to be In danger of failure. It was Roosevelt who pressed tne oenevoient factor of his own master ful personality Into the problem, not only once, but again and agaln until by an exercise of single-handed Influence un surpassed In history he practically com pelled success. "A diplomatic triumph of the flrst magnitude." was thi Rnadm, estimate of his Initial achievement In se curing the peace conference. This final achievement Is something more. It trans cends mere diplomacy, and is a triumph for peace, for reason and for humanity. The tidings of the day are peace, and the peace is the work of Theodore Roose velt His Crowning Achievement. New York World. Every American, whether he be Demo crat or Republican, has Just reason for pride and patriotism in Mr. Roosevelt's triumph over tremendous obstacles. Full credit Is his for his unprecedented au dacity, for his deliberate courage in step ping in between the warring nations. He had the sagacity to seize the psycho logical moment, and the persistence to press his point home. If he had ob served the usual diplomatic caution the deadlock of ten days ago would surely have terminated in open rupture. He set aside the conventions and went straight to St Petersburg and Toklo with his plea for peace. His part as peacemaker Is the crowning achievement of his brilliant ca reer. It promises to stand recorded as the most notable work of a crowded po litical life. t'The Pence of Roosevelt.' N. Y. Times. The world over it was known that Mr. Roosevelt's motives were the no blest and that they were entirely dis interested. He had no other thought than to bring about a "ficm and last ing peace." He has succeeded so well that if any one should choose to call it the. Peace of Roosevelt the answer ing smile would be rather more than half approving. One such great act Is enough to ennoble and give distinction to any human life., . . . It 13 be cause, the United States Is known to be free from European entanglements, and known also, as it has frequently avowed. neither to have nor to seek any relations with the Far East but those commercial relations which, as John Hay spent the last years of his life in proclaiming and proving we did not mean to make exclusive, but were only such as without polltloal intrigue and with an open fair field and no favor, we could maintain, that Mr. Roosevelt could do what he has done. President Has World's Stage. N. Y. American. ' The part played by President Roose velt In pressing the cause of" peace upon the two nations has been thor oughly characteristic of him and has been crowned with success. Many, fac tors enter into international diplomacy, and none can tell what assistance he "oa3 had from foreign nations or what assurances he may have given. Neither Is it known at present what the exact terms accepted by the two opposing nation may be. All that Is known Is that Mr. Roosevelt has once again se cured tho center of the stage, and this time It is not a national stage, but the stage of all the world. His limelight now is the sun which illuminates him, leaving Emperor William, the Czar and King Edward very much in the shade It is not too early to congratulate the President on what he has done to se cure for the United States the unques tioned honor of being for the first time the scene of a great diplomatic con ference. It is not too early to applaud him upon having forgotten the "Big stick1' and his manifold eulogies of war In ofder to bring peace to two' warring nations. But It is too early to say whether the. peace which has been se cured through his endeavors Is a, fair on and means a lasting peace. WHY ONE KANSAS LID IS-OFF Preacher Chief or Police Will Not Enforce the Law. 1 New York Sun. KANSAS CITY. Mo. Because its Chief of Police is a minister of the Gospel, with appointments to fill the pulpit of a Congre gational Church, the saloons of Kansas City, Kan., the largest city in the Sun flower state, run wide open every Sunday, in violation of the prohibitory liquor law. The Rev. Vernon J. Rose, the Chief of Police referred to. Is now fighting a move ment to oust him from office and to selact some man who has no ministerial duties to take up the time for which the city would pay hlra. The leader In this campaign Is Myron A. Waterman, a banker, brother-in-law of the Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, - of Topeka. who wrote "In His Steps" and undertook to run a daily newspaper for a week "as Jesus would." Mr. Waterman will appeal to Governor Edward W Hoch, who refused to permit his daughter to use wine in naming the battleship Kansas, to' help him put on the lid in Kansas City, Kan. The as sistance of the Rev. Mr. Sheldon will probably be invited also. In that case the situation would bo novel, even in Kansas. Many Kansas clergymen have been active In state pol itics but never before has one of them stood as a defender of the saloon Interests. That a preacher should be Chief of Po lice In a city of 80.000 inhabitants is in itself unusual. The Rev. Mr. Rose resided until a short time ago in a buffalo-grass country near, the Colorado line. Three years ago he was the Democratic candidate for Congressman from the Big Seventh district. The line dividing the two Kansas cities the one In Missouri .and the other in Kansas is a street. When Governor Folk started in to enforce the Sunday closing law In his state, blbulously inclined MIssourlans crossed the street and quenched their thirsts in the Kansas Joints". The Mayor of Kansas City, Kan., blind ed to the increased revenue going into his city, protested and sought the Chief of Police. He did not know that on that very day the Rev. Mr. Rose was standing in the pulpit of the Congregational Church at Greenwood. Mo., warning sinners to flee from the wrath to come. Naturally, Mr. Rose was unavailable for police duties. "My religion," the Rev. Mr. Rose says, "Is the religion of pure democracy." ANTI-TIP LAW IN EFFECT. What Can and What Cannot Now Be Done In New York. From a New York Letter. Senator Martin Saxe's anti-tlpplng bill will go into effect on Friday, September 1. If the law Is lived up to by New Yorkers who have been in the habit of offering bribes, and calling them tips as a salve to their conscience, it will save millions of dollars every year. The bill does not mean that you cannot fee a waiter in a restaurant for prompt attention, or that you cannot give a cab man an extra coin for driving you fast, but it does mean that a man who hag act ed as an agent for his employer and received money from the sellers of goods, which 13 to come out of his employer's pockets, commits a misdemeanor, and lays himself liable to prison. Here Is what you can do and what you con't do after the anti-tlpplng law goes ineffect: You can tip any one for good service. Yeu can't tip any one as a bribe. You can tip a waiter for bringing your dinner hot without delay. You can't tip him to serve you a $1 din ner for 50 cents. You can tip a coachman ror driving you fast You can't tip him for paying you 51000 of his employer's money for a horse worth $20. You are at perfectly liberty to tip a but ler. In the home of your friend for being attentive to you. You can't tip the butler for buying goods from you for his master's table. You can tip a hotel maid for fresh sheets, and pillow cases. You can't tip her for giving you soap to carry away in your grip. You can give a railroad purchasing; agent a Christmas gift or any other gifti If you choose. s You can't tip him for Ignoring other bidders and buying goods from you at the expense of the stockholders. In other words, a tip must be truly a tip or gratuity, and not a bribe or commission. .CLAIMS SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY Attempt to Disprove La Place's Nebular Theory. La Place's "ring" theory of the nebular hypothesis for the creation of the uni verse, which has stood service for more than a century In the scientific world, was torn to pieces recently by Professor F. R. Moulton, of the University of Chi cago, who believes that he has made the real solution of the evolution of our solar system. Assisted by Professor Thomas C. Chamberlain, head of the geology department Professor Moulton has been working for "more than four years to disprove the "ring" theory and to 'set up what he terms the "spiral" theory. The results of their researches were made known recently In a lecture on "The Evolution of the Solar. System." delivered at Chicago by Professor Moul ton. "The 'ring theory was brought out by La Place In 1705, and has been accepted almost universally up to the present time," declared Professor Moulton. "The theory which Professor Chamberlain and myself hold Is the spiral theory. We be lieve a second sun a disturbing sun moved down near our. sun and caused on our sun enormous tides, thousands of miles high. The tides were similar to the tides of the sea. One tide was at the ' point nearest the disturbing sun and tho other tide was on the opposite side. The matter shot toward the disturbing sun. Ordinarily it would have been straight up, but the disturbing sun moved around in an elliptical sort of orbit. Consequent ly all the masses thrown off were in a . spiral direction, one after another, whjch . accounts for the orbits of the planetsL- ;4 The swollen masses were attracted, to the large nuclei which made them Into planets." A Visitor Chntes the Stairway. Castle Rock Advocate. An unpleasant accident befell War ren Tucker, who went to Portland on the Eagles' excursion. While sitting on the railing in the stairway of one of Portland's sky-scrapers, "chin ning" with a "lady friend," Warren got "upsot" and slid- down seven teen flights of stairs, so the boys say, before he could stop himself. It Is needless to say that Warren returned from Portland feeling somewhat sore from his exciting trip. The Mistake Amos Made. Hood River Glacier. When Amos Underwood was called upon to tell some of his yarns, he-got up and after a few preliminary re marks, said he had lived In the West since 1852; that he had always had three meals a day, but that he had not at all times been particular about whose cupboard they came from. At this the old-timers In the crowd said: "That's no Ha." anrt rlsrht than nhrl there Amos Underwood lost his repu tation as a liar. An AlI-ErobraciHg Name. Ashland Tribune. v Elgin, Or., has a ftrra of drygobds men named Hug Brothers. Couldn't they keep busy in Ashland- f